Handprint Garden Markers

This sweet idea for home-made garden and plant labels came from the Reading Confettiwebsite. Although with the weather it is unsure how long they'll last, the concept of using the kids' own handprints is lovely.

There are endless possibilities and designs you can create using this basic idea, along with the cut out handprints and shapes of the fruit and vegetables.

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Celery Stalk Rose Prints
This is a lovely idea I saw on Maureen Cracknell's Homemade site.
It's a cute thing to do next time you have a recipe which needs a whole head of celery in one go and therefore you cut off the stump rather than peeling individual stalks, or you can do the same with a head of crunchy lettuce.
So next time you have one of those recipes, get your paints out and let your kids make some pretty art or some greetings cards.
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Egg Herb Garden
This is a fun way to grow a small herb garden, which would make a sweet gift from a child to a cook in their family.
The infographic below shows you all the steps you need to know, the main thing is to take the top off carefully so you may want to help children with this or take the top off before they get started.
Large plants will obviously need transplanting - this one features a tomato which would need potting on. But chives, basil, thyme, parsley,...

Colouring Fruit and Vegetables
We found these great food colouring sheets on Today I Ate A Rainbow.
Children need to find out about different colours of foods and why they are important for our health, and grouping them by colour in these sheets can help them to recognise fruit and vegetables by matching what colours they are.
The example in the picture below are all 'Red' - strawberries, cherries, apples, raspberries and tomatoes, but there are sheets for other colour groups ...

Identifying bare winter trees from buds and twigs
We found this activity for the outdoors on Nature Detectives.
This is an activity for your garden, park, nature walk or school playing field, pretty much anywhere you can find are a variety of trees.
Normally we identify trees by their overall shape, their leaf shapes and their fruits or seeds. During the winter months trees are mostly bare and this makes it harder to identify what type they are (e....